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I Call It Breaking
Hate is invigorating isn’t it darling? You can taste it, can’t you? I can taste it That white hot sensation spreading in my lower belly absolute loathsome at dirt-rotten hair Words that twist in my head like a pretty little rose vine those thorns cutting into my skin…
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Delphic Pinions
I fancy that little dragonfly in the sky So gratuitous is the little dragonfly that I gained resentment towards those wings
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Enigma
I’ll never forget the day I saw those brown eyes staring at me with as much longing as I was filled with Filled with the amity the burnished satisfaction I wanted to give in to you I remember every ripple of your skin under my touch how your breath…
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Palaver Sermons
It couldn’t have been long Maybe six months Eighty-seven thousand and sixty hours Perhaps it was decades, darling Everyday in your presence multiplied into eons Every moment aligned perfectly So perfectly I’m sure we were together in every single dimension every parallel universe constellation The galaxy shifted…
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Velvet Threads
With your hair pushed back black as the raven’s claw Intelligent eyes laughing You had an air of innocence around you Purity Richness Like the scent of a garden freshly bloomed with white roses But those same roses had thorns that could prick and pierce right through…
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Whimsical Dreams
I had a dream once. One that consisted of butterflies swarming around a chain of daisies. There were lilacs and daffodils blooming high in a field that danced with the summer wind. Their petals laughed at the sun, seeming to cry out for its warmth, for their growth. It was a…
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Paper Ideations
Pencil shavings the color of ash found in that overflowing trash It holds old names and unwanted toiletries things that were never really needed Easily forgotten In that office where things shouldn’t be abandoned There’s something refreshing haven’t you noticed about remembering the forgotten Those things you…
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Between the Constellations
There is a world inside of your eyes Speckles of Orion and thunderstorms Andromeda and passion Wet hot desire burnished deeply into those amber irises You gaze at me with a devotion so pure smeared white and gold As if I am your providence like you are the…
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Human Shaped Rose
It was like rose petals The inner thin layer of her heart shaped like a pretty corolla She was delicate Water slipping off of her husks to gather at the roots Yet she would never grow Those petals turned translucent Combining with those rays she would try…
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la vague à l’âme
I have 5 bottles lining the walls of my heart Their names are mixtures of contronyms dredges of adulation, malice just a sliver of delirium I’d like to boast that they’re all for decoration – just like my half witted remarks my freckles that connect like those constellations you so…
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The Face of Janus
It’s easy enough to do it with a smile A haughty laughter that sickens you but makes their faces glimmer Produces peachy cheeks radiant with rose color tints floral shades They convulse from their bellies No matter how much your eyes beg for alleviation
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love beyond the frost-line
I was molded out of clay You spread your hands across me effacing me Smearing Sculpting You have made every past deed in my life your own Carved your fingers against a three dimensional object Formed our very own Big Bang Copernicus systems meeting up where…
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Seven Colored Ash
It has happened once a year every twelve years Stoic years that have defined the meaning of my anguish I had tried to talk to you Stretch through the prickled dots that cloud my sky just to try to spread into yours but my movements they were…